After Bao Yuan'er acquired Fang Ke's stock, Lin Chaoyang did not return to Xiangjiang immediately, but came to Huacheng Publishing House.

He came to Huacheng Publishing House not for his own business, but to help Tao Yushu check out the development of "The King of Manga".

The bimonthly magazine "King of Manga" is nominally founded by Huacheng Publishing House, but it cannot do without the full support of Yulang Organization.

However, Huacheng Publishing House has put a lot of effort into this first comic publication in China. For example, they spent a lot of effort to recruit Hong Siwen, the deputy editor-in-chief of "Weekend" Pictorial, from Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House.

"Weekend" pictorial was one of the most well-known publications in Guangzhou in the 1980s. The comic strip stories it serialized were very popular, with sales of one million copies in a single issue.

As the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Weekend" pictorial, Hong Siwen is in the prime of life and may become the editor-in-chief in a few years.

Lin Chaoyang asked Li Shifei how they poached people, and Li Shifei said that they solved the housing problem for Hong Siwen.

Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but secretly sigh, it's so easy to recruit talents these days, just provide them with housing.

When I thought about it later, I realized that this idea was wrong.

It might be simpler in later generations. This is a house in Guangzhou!

Nowadays, the main form of comics in China is comic strips. When Hong Siwen came to Huacheng Publishing House, it took him a while to get used to it before he understood the so-called "comics" they wanted to create.

In order to allow editors to better understand the difference between comics and comic strips, Huacheng Publishing House and Yulang Agency jointly held a 45-day editing training course in September.

After the New Year, the two companies will continue to jointly organize cartoonist training courses, and the instructors will be senior cartoon editors and authors under Yulang Organization.

Cartoonists cannot be trained in a day or two. This training course is not for ordinary comic book lovers, but for editors and authors who already have the skills to draw comic strips.

Anyone who is interested in comic creation can sign up and learn for free.

"In the second half of next year, I plan to hold a training class for ordinary comic book lovers.

First, we will hold a "Prize-based Call for Papers" event on "King of Comics" to screen potential comics authors from amateur submissions and strive to cultivate China's first batch of comic talents.

If conditions permit, we will conduct this training course for at least two or three years.

After Hong Siwen introduced the current situation of "The King of Comics" to Lin Chaoyang, he also talked about his ideas on cultivating comic talents.

Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but scratch his head. Hong Siwen's thinking was very clear. This was indeed an effective method.

It seems that the magazine has developed well since its establishment, which gave him a lot of confidence.

"Manga King" released its first issue on November 5, two months ago. The first issue had an initial print run of 30,000 copies and was snapped up by enthusiastic readers as soon as it went on the market.

In the past ten years, Xiangjiang comics have been widely circulated among comic book lovers in Guangzhou and have already cultivated a group of comic readers.

"King of Manga" has been advertised for more than a month before its release. These comic readers have been looking forward to it for a long time.

After the first printing was sold out, Huacheng Publishing House urgently printed an additional 50,000 copies.

The first issue of "Manga King" sold 80,000 copies, not because it could only sell 80,000 copies, but because it was a semi-monthly magazine.

The interval between each listing is only half a month.

When the second issue was released and launched, Huacheng Publishing House became much bolder this time, and the first printing was 100,000 copies.

Still can't satisfy the enthusiastic readers.

In the fourth issue on December 20, which was the last issue in 1988, the sales of "Manga King" successfully exceeded 300,000 copies.

In just two months, a comic magazine with a sales volume of 300,000 copies was created from scratch, which is undoubtedly a huge success for Huacheng Publishing House.

Moreover, looking at the momentum of "Manga King", this sales volume is far from its limit.

Because until now, the distribution of "Manhua King" has only covered a few provinces in southern China.

"This is a great idea. I never thought you could achieve such great results in such a short period of time."

Lin Chaoyang congratulated.

Hong Siwen said: "Thanks to the support of Yulang Organization. We conducted a reader survey in the last issue and received hundreds of feedbacks. More than 90% of our readers were attracted by "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "Heroes of China".

This work attracted me.”

When "Manga King" was first launched, 80% of the pages were occupied by comics from the Yulang Organization, and the remaining few pages were still published in more traditional comic strips.

"Everything has a development process. As long as you can maintain this development momentum and cultivate a fixed audience, it will only be a matter of time before you produce excellent content in the future.

Once the audience is cultivated, it will not only be beneficial to "Manhua King" and Huacheng Publishing House, but also the benefits to Yulang Organization are obvious.

According to the current development speed of "Manga King", it is highly likely that the sales of a single issue will exceed one million copies within a year, which means a readership of one million or more.

At that time, it will also be the day of harvest for Yulang Organization.

After learning about the situation of "The King of Manga", Lin Chaoyang's purpose of this trip was completed. Li Shifei invited him to dinner and asked about the new book.

"It's been a year and a half since I finished writing "The Great Era", and there's been no news about your new book."

"I'm writing, I'm writing." Lin Chaoyang said.

Li Shifei suddenly became excited after hearing this, "Have you written it? What story is it telling?"

Lin Chaoyang briefly told him the story of the new book, and Li Shifei nodded frequently, "This story has a good intention! It is inherently literary and ideological!"

His words are suspected of being an overt and covert satire of "The Great Era". This novel has sold 2.2 million copies since its publication in the mainland and has been welcomed by many readers. However, it has been criticized for its "popular content".

After traveling from Shenzhen to Guangzhou for more than a week, Lin Chaoyang returned to Xiangjiang.

In the blink of an eye, it is already the middle of New Year's Day, and Lam Pictures' "Chicken and Duck Talk" has been in theaters for 23 days, and its cumulative box office has officially exceeded HK$30 million.

In recent days, with the continuous release of new films, "Uncle Zombie" and "Red Lips", which were released almost at the same time as "Chicken Talk", have been released.

The single-day box office of "Chicken and Duck Talk" has also dropped to less than 400,000 Hong Kong dollars. If nothing else happens, the movie will complete its mission by the end of this week.

Before "Chicken Talk" was released, Lam Pictures' next film "Eight Liang Gold" had already hit the big screen.

This movie was created by Wanting Cheung, who directed "An Autumn Fairy Tale". The heroine remains the same, Sylvia Chang, but the male lead has changed from Sammo Hung to Tony Leung Ka Fai.

"Eight Liang of Gold" is one of Zhang Wanting's "Immigration Trilogy". It tells the story of Monkey, played by Tony Leung Ka Fai, who left his hometown of Shantou and smuggled to the United States during the flood of humanity.

After many years in the United States, he couldn't bear the pain of homesickness and decided to return home. He borrowed eight taels of gold (gold watches, gold keys) from his friends, and bought many things to prepare for returning home in fine clothes. However, he encountered a series of setbacks on the way back home.

Zhang Wanting is somewhat similar to Xu Anhua in that she pays close attention to reality. If she wants to make a movie like "Eight Liang Gold", she is destined to be unable to achieve high box office.

She herself knows this situation. The investment in this movie is not high, only 5 million, and the actors' remuneration accounts for more than half.

With limited funds, Lin found Pearl Film Studio and asked Pearl Film Studio to co-produce the film. The film was shot in the mainland, saving a lot of money.

In the past two years, the salaries of Hong Kong film actors have been rising steadily. No matter what others think, Tony Leung's performance is worthy of his salary.

For this movie, he specially gained 30 pounds because the male protagonist in the movie was called a monkey when he was young.

As a result, people become overworked and obese in middle age.

After "Eight Liang Gold" was released, it did not sweep the theaters like many commercial films of Lam Pictures, which made other film companies heave a sigh of relief.

One week after the movie was released, "Eight Liang Gold" quietly hit a box office of 4.27 million.

This number is certainly nothing for a commercial film with a big cast and big investment, but for "Eight Liang Gold", a literary film with an investment of only HK$5 million, it is already very successful.

According to this box office trend, this movie can even make a profit relying on local box office.

This situation makes many movies have to lament the magic of Lin's Pictures!

The weekly press conference was over, and the employees in the distribution department breathed a sigh of relief. The distribution of the new film went smoothly, and the boss seemed to be in a good mood.

Lin's Pictures' current business scope covers the entire upstream and downstream of the film industry, with numerous holding subsidiaries and departments. The competitive environment within the company has also become fierce, and employees have to work harder than before.

""The Trickster" will be released next month. This is the company's key project in February, so everyone must work harder!"

"yes!"

After Tao Yushu finished speaking, there was a sound of agreement in the conference room, and then everyone stood up and left.

"Mr. Tao, Director Qi is here."

"Um."

Tao Yushu stood up and returned to the office. Qi Wenjie, who was sitting on his chair, immediately stood up and said, "Mr. Tao!"

"Sit down!" Tao Yushu waved his hand and asked directly without any polite greetings: "How are the sales of this issue?"

"The response has been very good. Sales have returned to 100,000 copies. It looks like it is expected to break the new record of "Yokulang Comics"."

Tao Yushu nodded, "It seems that the direction is right. The simplification of work types and plots is the biggest reason why Yulang Agency's current work sales and influence have encountered bottlenecks. Diversified creations can not only effectively break through this bottleneck, but also can

Take advantage of your competitors."

When she said this, her eyes were placed on Qi Wenjie with deep meaning, making Qi Wenjie immediately feel a huge pressure.

He avoided Tao Yushu's eyes, lowered his head slightly, and showed a trace of shame on his face.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Tao, it's all our fault!"

The atmosphere in the office became silent. Without waiting for Tao Yushu's comfort, Qi Wenjie became increasingly nervous.

He didn't dare to raise his eyes to look directly at Tao Yushu.

Although only a few seconds had passed, Qi Wenjie felt as if the days were passing by like years.

"There is no need to discuss whether you have neglected your duty or not. The important thing is to do the next thing well.

Wenjie, don’t let me down."

Tao Yushu's tone was not harsh, but there was an extraordinarily majestic tone in Qi Wenjie's ears that made him dare not ignore it.
To be continued...